insidiator, Zeus Bloch [M. E.] 1787:41, Pl. 192 (figs. 2-3) [Naturgeschichte der ausländischen Fische v. 3; ref. 468] Surate [Surat], Surat District, India, Tapti River estuary, into Gulf of Khambhat, Arabian Sea, Western Indian Ocean. Syntypes: ZMB 1676 (2). Type catalog: Paepke 1999:94 [ref. 24282]. On p. 31 of Bloch's Ichthyologie, v. 6 [ref. 21381]. •Valid as Leiognathus insidiator (Bloch 1787) -- (Yu & Zhou in Kuang et al. 1986:232 [ref. 26639], Ye in Pan et al. 1991:390 [ref. 23876], Kottelat 2013:337 [ref. 32989]). •Valid as Secutor insidiator (Bloch 1787) -- (Monkolprasit 1973:10 [ref. 7378], Jones 1985:605 [ref. 21842], Smith 1986:621 [ref. 5712], Mochizuki & Hayashi 1989:87 [ref. 20157], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:833 [ref. 20764], Kottelat et al. 1993:112 [ref. 23448], Krishnan & Mishra 1993:226 [ref. 24016], Goren & Dor 1994:36 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:193 [ref. 22896], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:350 [ref. 27969], Larson & Williams 1997:359 [ref. 23967], Carpenter et al. 1997:170 [ref. 23922], Yamashita et al. 2000:49 [ref. 24517], Mishra & Srinivasan 1999:247 [ref. 24754], Woodland in Randall & Lim 2000:617 [ref. 25122], Bijukumar & Sushama 2000:186 [ref. 25703] as insidator, Hutchins 2001:33 [ref. 25847], Woodland et al. 2001:2820 [ref. 26095], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S108 [ref. 27377], Mishra & Krishnan 2003:34 [ref. 27712], Ataur Rahman 2003:364 [ref. 31338], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:276 [ref. 28072], Randall 2005:241 [ref. 28239], Hoese & Bray 2006:1182 [ref. 29000], Chakrabarty et al. 2008:150 [ref. 32414], Chakrabarty et al. 2009:150 [ref. 30295], Chakrabarty et al. 2010:118 [ref. 31090], Abraham et al. 2011:14 [ref. 31311], Baldwin & Sparks 2011:39 [ref. 31487], Larson et al. 2013:123 [ref. 32988], Psomadakis et al. 2015:237 [ref. 34104] as cf. insidiator, Ali et al. 2018:325 [ref. 36183], Fricke et al. 2018:191 [ref. 35805], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 22 [ref. 38321]). •Valid as Deveximentum insidiator (Bloch 1787) -- (Kimura in Motomura et al. 2017:122 [ref. 35490], Eagderi et al. 2019:75 [ref. 37020], Psomadakis et al. 2020:437 [ref. 37272], Alavi-Yeganeh et al. 2021:6 [ref. 38052], Sharifuzzaman et al. 2021:[3] [ref. 38872], Chakrabarty & Sparks 2022:417 [ref. 39869], Gloerfelt-Tarp & Kailola 2022:179 [ref. 41223]). Current status: Valid as Deveximentum insidiator (Bloch 1787). Leiognathidae: Gazzinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: East Africa, Madagascar and Persian Gulf east to eastern Indonesia and Solomon Islands, south to Exmouth Gulf (Western Australia) and Queensland (Australia) and New Caledonia. IUCN (2022): Not Assessed. Habitat: brackish, marine.